# Opening Scene View module causes Slicer Crash
**URL:** https://discourse.slicer.org/t/opening-scene-view-module-causes-slicer-crash/2772
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [May 7, 2018, 10:21pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/opening-scene-view-module-causes-slicer-crash/2772 "2018-05-07T22:21:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Sam\_Horvath](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/Sam_Horvath)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2018, 10:21pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/opening-scene-view-module-causes-slicer-crash/2772/1 "2018-05-07T22:21:40Z")
Operating System - Windows 10
Slicer version- 5/04/2018 nightly
Opening the Scene Views module (with or without data loaded) causes Slicer to crash.
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### Author:  [@pieper](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/pieper)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2018, 12:00am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/opening-scene-view-module-causes-slicer-crash/2772/2 "2018-05-08T00:00:12Z")
Thanks for the report - this is actually already a known issue but it hasn’t been looked into yet:
[https://issues.slicer.org/view.php?id=4508](https://issues.slicer.org/view.php?id=4508)
As an aside @Sam_Horvath do you use SceneViews in your work? They have proven to be a problematic feature and we have been thinking they may need to be re-implemented (or removed?) at some point.
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### Author:  [@Sam\_Horvath](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/Sam_Horvath)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2018, 2:36am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/opening-scene-view-module-causes-slicer-crash/2772/3 "2018-05-08T02:36:35Z")
@pieper, I do not currently use them. I was looking into the module mainly because I hadn’t ever done anything with it. I’m working on a surgical planning project where we need to generate a step by step instruction list based on actions performed in the Slicer-based planner. We will be using screenshots as the main way to capture changes from one state to the next, but I was wondering if anything in Scene Views would be useful.
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### Author:  [@pieper](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/pieper)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2018, 12:04pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/opening-scene-view-module-causes-slicer-crash/2772/4 "2018-05-08T12:04:18Z")
Thanks for the feedback – yes, SceneViews could potentially be useful in those scenarios. You could play with it in 4.8.1 to see if it seems workable (there are several corner cases that have led to headaches over the years and I’m not sure they were all resolved).
A workaround could be to save separate scene (.mrb) at each step and have the user close the scene and open a new one to get to a particular step.
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### Author:  [@lassoan](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/lassoan)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2018, 5:58pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/opening-scene-view-module-causes-slicer-crash/2772/5 "2018-08-24T17:58:38Z")
Scene views module has been recently fixed in Slicer-4.9.